Lorne Calvert News

So it's finally happened -- as a certain radio talk show host predicted it would -- Saskatchewan's population has hit an all-time high of 1,034,974. Never before have this many people called Saskatchewan home.

Money might make the average person forget about the little guy, but it's pretty much the opposite in government.

Guy Lonechild was elected FSIN Chief at its fall assembly at TCU Place in Saskatoon on Friday.

The difficulty with labour issues is that they are seldom as simple as one side or the other purports them to be.

The history of the forestry industry in this province shows it has at least as much to do with politics as it does with pulp.

Wall responded by welcoming Lingenfelter back to the legislature, and then accused him of once trying to aid and abet the Sask.

The party that should be in power next time around in Alberta unfortunately doesn't exist yet.

A political veteran and a political newcomer were officially sworn into the legislature Monday as the province's two newest MLAs.

While it was a concern of Premier Lorne Calvert that a federal election may overlap a provincial one, Wascana MP Ralph Goodale said the Liberals have more options than simply voting against the speech from the throne to let the Conservative government know they missed the mark.

It's been a lucky year for Saskatchewan. So why can't Saskatchewan's premier get more of that luck to rub off on him? Everywhere you look in this former have-not province, the news is good.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged $1 billion for Canadian farmers at a farm near here Friday.

NDP Leader Dwain Lingenfelter hasn't been shy about connecting Premier Brad Wall to the man he once worked for as a political staffer, Grant Devine.

There are occasions when sometimes laughable Saskatchewan government communication crosses the line and becomes nothing short of irritatingly intolerable political propaganda.

It says much about the state of the provincial NDP when a pragmatic life-long party member who helped save the province from bankruptcy can give up on her political home and join the federal Conservatives.

It's pretty obvious Saskatchewan political discourse will be significantly more rancorous under Dwain Lingenfelter's Opposition leadership.

The candidates in the Riversdale byelection : Eileen Gelowitz of the Liberals, Corey O'Soup of the Saskatchewan Party, Danielle Chartier of the NDP and Tobi-Dawne Smith of the Green Party Photograph by: Richard Marjan, The StarPhoenix The four candidates in Monday's Saskatoon Riversdale byelection have provided the following written responses to a ...

Public consultations on the government's Uranium Development Partnership saw an "overwhelming response" against nuclear power and other aspects of the industry, widespread concern over health, safety and environmental impacts and skepticism towards the UDP itself, according to the report prepared by a former top civil servant and released Tuesday.

Although the NDP candidate is the "odds-on favourite" to win the Saskatoon Riversdale byelection, the outcome will depend on which campaign's volunteers can bring enough supporters to the polls on voting day, says a political scientist.

Glenn Hagel, shown at the legislature in 2007, was a Moose Jaw MLA for 21 years.

As reported earlier this summer in the Times-Herald, former Moose Jaw North MLA Glenn Hagel has been considering running to be the city's next mayor.